Bigcapital
Modern open-source accounting software for small businesses.
Bigcapital is online accounting software for automating business financial processes, covering bookkeeping, invoicing, inventory tracking, expense accounting, multi-currency transactions, and financial reporting. It is available as a self-hosted and cloud-hosted solution, with account information stored in the cloud for access across devices.
Core capabilities include sales and purchase invoicing with recurring invoices and payment tracking, inventory management with automatic stock updates, expense categorization, multi-currency accounting with real-time exchange rate conversions, and financial reports. It supports collaboration through role-based permissions for accountants and bookkeepers, bank connection for automatic transaction importing via Plaid, GST and VAT tracking, manual journals, and a chart of accounts. Additional modules in higher tiers cover purchase invoices, transaction locking, budgeting, cost center analysis, custom user roles, vendor credits, multiple branches, and multiple warehouses.
Bigcapital is aimed at businesses at different stages, from those starting out with basic bookkeeping to scaling operations across branches and warehouses. It is packaged as a month-to-month subscription with a 14-day free trial and four editions—Capital Basic, Capital Essential, Capital Plus, and Capital Big—each building on the previous one. All plans include unlimited user seats and 24/7 online support, with annual billing available at a discount and a 30-day money-back guarantee on annual plans.
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